Comments on: Blown away? - Not on my Watch

By: fústar

fústar — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:22:51 +0000

MM, I take my flag-tying and flag-displaying very seriously indeed. I like to test myself in inhospitable condition, and the wind whipping in from Galway Bay directly onto that balcony proved a real challenge - even for me.

Someone less experienced would probably have ended up with the flag wrapped round their face before toppling blindly (to their doom) over the balcony.

Leave it to the experts.

By: Mindful Mike

Mindful Mike — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:32:48 +0000

It needed someone like yourself to draw up proper flag guidelines. I remember you displayed your expertise and knowledge during the 2002 World Cup, when you proudly hung the tricolour from your penthouse balcony, securely fastened amid treacherous flag-flying conditions. I remember you braving the elements and boldly stating “One can not go into the business of flag-tying willy-nilly young Mike, it is a serious business.” Respect.

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:29:26 +0000

Ladies and gents - our roving reporter.

Lord knows what the Austrian transport minister would have made of the scenes here during Italia 90. People hanging out of the boots of moving cars with flags hanging from every limb. Flags on windscreens, flags on roofs, flags in engines.

It was a safety conscious, flag-o-phobe’s nightmare.